Monthly Archives: <span>January 2013</span>

CARSTAR Opens First Location in Denton, Texas

CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts, a national multi-shop operator network (MSO), announced the opening of the first CARSTAR location in Denton, Texas – Autobody Denton CARSTAR. Owned by Mark Riney, Autobody Denton CARSTAR is located at 820 E. McKinney Street …

Paul Davis Selected as a Preferred Mitigation Vendor by Allstate

Paul Davis Restoration, Inc. a national franchise company and leading provider of fire, water and mold damage restoration services for residential and commercial properties has been selected to participate as a preferred vendor in Allstate’s mitigation direct repair program. As …

Curve Warning Signs Erected at Site of Fatal Crash

State highway workers installed 22 new signs warning drivers about dangerous curves on a stretch in La. Highway 44 in southern Ascension Parish where a 5-year-old child was killed in a traffic accident Monday. Crews erected two curve-warning signs and …

Magnitude 5.3 Quake off Oregon Coast

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has been recorded about 170 miles off the southern Oregon coast. The National Weather Service’s West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said there was no danger of a tsunami from the Tuesday evening quake. There …

Trees Down, Outages as Storms Rake U.S. Midsection

A large storm system packing high winds, rain and some possible tornadoes tore across several states in the South and central U.S. on Wednesday, blacking out power to thousands, downing trees and damaging homes. One death was reported when a …

Judge Drops Michigan City From Lawsuit Over Marina Death

A Michigan judge has dropped Traverse City’s government from a lawsuit filed by the family of a young man who died after getting an electric shock as he swam near a municipal marina. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports Wednesday that …

Winds Blamed for Indiana Storm Damage

The National Weather Service is blaming straight-line winds and not a tornado for damaging several homes and other buildings in southwestern Indiana. Meteorologist Dave Tucek in Indianapolis says descriptions of overnight storm damage reported in Greene County suggest that homes …

Sand Bags Going Out to Limit Colorado Fire Flooding

Hundreds of homeowners living near the Waldo Canyon burn area in Colorado Springs are getting more sandbags to limit flooding this spring. Officials say the risk of flooding has increased by 350 percent as a result of environmental damage to …

Brazil Nightclub Owner Blames Inspectors for Fire

A lawyer representing the owner of the nightclub in southern Brazil where 235 people died in a fire last weekend says his client “regrets it very much” but insisted he was only partly to blame. Attorney Jader Marques says club …

More Than $13.6M in Fake NFL Merchandise Seized

Reporting from the National Football League conference, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton and NFL Vice President for Legal Affairs Anastasia Danias announced the record-breaking results of a nationwide enforcement operation. ‘Operation Red Zone’ targeted international shipments …